Song by song Toundra analyze issues "(III)"

Toundra yesterday published its third and highly anticipated studio album entitled "(III)". The expectation created with this LP has been complete and they, who have always known feet touch ground at all times, have managed to carve another big bombshell that will delight those who enjoy the beautiful with the apocalypse that characterizes his delusional instrumental sound.
Looking ahead to this time we wanted to know absolutely everything about the recording process of 'Lilim', 'Mars', 'Spiritist' and other songs "(III)" so we got in touch with the band from Madrid to see if we could make a 1 x 1 album cuts, something they very kindly agreed adding a clear and concise message: this time Toundra have wanted to deviate from the main path of post rock. What was important at this point? "Victor explains to us:" We have tried to offer something different to our previous album, something more raw, straight, dark, aggressive yet elegant, more complex, and it sounds better compound more our live. It is clear that there are many things and very ambitious, but to this day, is the best record we could do. ". Moreover Esteban tells us that DNA is well expressed in Toundra "(III)", "believe that the disc very well defined Toundra because what you hear is what we are: a battery that protrudes completely from the rest, two guitars faced with completely opposite styles and low that brings together all the instruments and (Alberto) always has the last word. "
Without further ado here are the boys' own analysis of Toundra. Enjoy it!
01. - Ara Coeli:Esteban: Since Victor taught guitar opens the track with the synth knew that this topic would be the track 1 disc. Victor is also the progressive riff that, in our opinion, is the best parts of (III). It's a song that defines our sound right now is pretty parts, crescendo, sugarcane parties, progressive ... but otherwise I do not think an earlier in structure and instrumentation. So I like both. Will fill in an atmosphere of harmony and order and then give a blow to the head. Also involved Hellacopters inspired and was the first riff I did when we knew we had to get to work on this album every man for himself. But the good thing about this group is that the different influences that we are safeguarded in all four playing. The name is a tribute to my aunt (and my family), Araceli, cornerstone Girón family, rest in peace.
02. - Black Sky:Victor: It was the second issue that we started writing (around April-May, 2011). Over the last year has had multiple versions and I remember that everything came from a riff that brought Stephen and began directly without the intro. Possibly the subject disk might best be embedded within (II) is more palatable and less complicated structure. The start trying to sound different, rock group of the 70 and then the second part enlazase is more relaxed. By July we get stuck halfway through and had to compose theme Ara Coeli. Sergio (Aloud Music) defines something like "a song that slams you and at the end leaves you totally cleansed." As a curious note that this was the first song I had more than one word as title Toundra entire discography.
03. - Requiem:Esteban: A weekday lunch with Victor was and I said I wanted a theme that oxygenate the disc, something different, as there was in the previous two. I knew what he meant: a theme that will give variety to "(III)", which come out fully the style of practice and influences drank away in time. That night I could not sleep and di guitar playing with the idea of ​​this topic. Then Victor wrote at local guitar melody, and I noticed shortly after with the chord progression. I recorded it to share it with the rest by mail. Then the local Victor composed the guitar riff, which gives an air of melancholy to the topic. From there the issue grows and grows into one of the most epic we've ever done, thanks largely to the string arrangements by Yoren, a childhood friend of Alberto. It also has a guitar solo from our (admired) The Scrip friend Hardtops, for us one of the people who best represents the rock.
04. - Mars:Victor: It was the first song I started writing and just last. It grew out of an improvisation on several ideas that had brought Esteban. There were things that we were not convinced and leave "pending" until about February 2012. Alberto insisted recycle the original principle of the song, which was too broken and wanted to experience something more wild. Alex has used this type of rhythms with other groups, although he had never applied to Toundra, the end result is superb. The song was a coming and going to parties, had up to a war vs Victor alone. Esteban, but luckily recovered sanity and decided to top it with a hand full of timbales dense, much more consistent with the rest of the theme. The icing was recorded trumpet line Manolo, that replicates the guitar melody. This is a very dynamic and fun to play live. I think little by little we are more interested in playing things faster.
05. - Lilim:Esteban: The riff that starts the song we had done it a long time and we left parked. We had several jokes about it because it reminded us of a particular style of music you hate. Thanks to Alex battery change and the work they did on the Westline Studios with the help of Juan Blas in preproduction not just take it out later, but we took it a step further ... the beginning of this song envelops you, it is difficult to explain in words. My guitar is a mantra that nothing enters the dense atmosphere of bass and drums and guitar riff Victor with exotic snakes on the set. I particularly like because it has a line of guitar playing that goes along with the song but small changes within the same (if arpeggiated, if as a riff, that if in crescendo ...). This is something that before we dared and we see that it worked. There's a part at the end which is a tribute to Nirvana, capital group in our influences.
06. - Spiritist:Victor: I think it was the third song we wrote. In (III) have worked enough ideas at home and then we took her to the local. Victor wrote home composed the start of the topic and the next day we taught. Anyone know which group is quite difficult to have a beginning, an end and nothing in between ... I wanted it to be an issue epic feeling to give final disc, but neither lost immediacy, energy, nor was longer than the others. It is another issue that has changed over time, actually got to release a version Ferrara Anniversary concert that today would be unrecognizable to us except for those beginning and end ... It has a very interesting middle and dark, a crescendo of piano with Egyptian air that we love. (Steve: Although I wanted to erase bastards).
Victor: We were very clear from the beginning that we wanted to voice at the end and we gradually fitting all the extra instruments and arrangements have item. A disk end of cutting less than the (I) or (II), much more intention. From guitars fading exhausted.

Lianne La Havas: vitamin soul emerging from Tooting

Overcoming this calorazo strikes us is an almost impossible mission, and thinking that we're back to our hellish jobs. Luckily we'll always have the good soul music genre which today still get interesting figures have emerged under his arms. One of the latest figures to appear in the sky as concrete is Lianne La Havas, a young girl who grew up in the neighborhood of Tooting (London) and is attracting attention from all over Europe thanks to the explosion of color that is apparent from listening to 'Your Love Is Big Enough', his latest single and fabulous.
But I do not want to mislead you bear: their debut album, entitled as the simple and internationally premiered on 9 July, is a gem exquisitely produced by Matt Hales of Aqualung, in which the voice and the guitar grapnels Lianne shine brightly. Strange is that the girl is so young: only 23 years old, and an EP and an LP on their backs, the soloist of Greek descent and has surprised everyone Jamaican tables showing improper for a girl who has two first days in this world.
No wonder at all that the occasional piece of album 'Forget' has a stop very close to the R & B 90. Reading his biography we proved that Mary J. Blige has been one of its most direct references early. That makes your sound more dynamic sections and pompous, so tremendously expansive sound.United States and many parts of Europe await you on the tour that Lianne keep busy until December this year. With so much movement we do not doubt that his formula will end up exploding in much of the world: Warner Bros has been successful with his signing and all the stars seem to have aligned for this beautiful and friendly girl South London gets late or early the top.
His music can be purchased through their official website. In Spotify, at least for now, you can only hear a total of 8 old subjects (EP + tracks released a brief EP / single "Forget").

Evan Caminiti: between wakefulness and dream

Evan Caminitis new album "Dreamless Sleep" is a sonification of the Hindu Sushupti concept-a state between wakefulness and dream, in which the consciousness of desire, evil and fear free. Reverberated guitars and swirling synths produce continually flowing sound mist as they move between light and dark, the atmosphere of creeping Lamentations and devotional hymns verbindent.


Only a few months after the hevorragenden "Night Dust" "Dreamless Sleep" appears on Aug 21, 2012 as Thrill311 at Thrill Jocky.

Angus Stone - Broken Brights

 Who would have expected .. In a direct comparison of the two solo albums siblings Julia Stone is subject to much her ​​brother Angus.  
 Because of "Broken brights" Angus Stone has succeeded in creating a truly original album, which is clearly from the previous Angus & Julia Stone albums apart.

Barcelona and Madrid Japandroids burn it with your direct

Much darling gentlemen! Last night we learned that Japandroids will come in mid-October to Spain to present at the spectacular country album - "Celebration Rock" - that is putting the Canadians as one of the best bands of this 2012. Aim well dates: October 12 is the day that pass through Madrid (Sala El Sol) while the hair will see Barcelona just one day later (October 13, Sala Apolo). Tickets for both events will go on sale soon.

To whet your appetite ahead of the looming madness (no small) Vancouver duo has risen to the network's new music video for her latest single, 'The House That Built Heaven'. In this production, which was directed by Jim Larson (and produced by people of Pitchfork indie oracle), we live close the gap that can live on a tour of Japandroids.

In October the stages of Madrid and Barcelona will burn in flames with the majestic rock from these guys.Do not miss the opportunity to jump and jump with them!

Max Raabe solo beach

Max Raabe with solo program "Across the Sea" at the Prince Regent Theatre
Max Raabe at the beach - Photo: Concert Office AugsburgThe sea is a romantic metaphor - a symbol of longing and renewal, for parting and longing. Chamber music with an acoustic intensity designs Max Raabe panorama of this enigmatic world of feelings. In predominantly quiet sounds told the solo concert program "Across the Sea" by love and longing, of departing and arriving. Concentrated and varied biases as well as voluminous baritone voice of the great precision, melodramatic arc - serene, elegiac and melancholy. On 30/09/2012, Max Raabe with "Across the Sea" a guest at the Prince Regent Theatre in Munich.
The pieces were written for the most part towards the end of the Weimar Republic, this experimental and contradictory, and wonderfully wacky but not "golden" time. Legendary composers and lyricists such as Fritz Rotter, Robert Gilbert, Walter Jurmann, Austin Egen, Hans May, Walter Reisch and Werner Richard Heymann, without exception, of Jewish origin had, via Vienna, Paris and London to emigrate to the United States - literally "the sea" and far away from home and that language, which she loved and so masterfully controlled. Some were lucky and made careers in Hollywood, not a few later returned to Germany. May their names be known today only a few - their melodies sound across all depths and time breaks.

The ingenious mix of melancholy and irony, sadness and joy of life is the brazen still unmatched legacy of a culture that was destroyed in 1933 brutally. All the wonderful triumph of the late great artist, whose unique, always romantically colored spirit moved with instinctive sureness between major and minor, between the Little and the Great, the Light and Heavy, between wit and madness of life.
A cycle of songs like Max Raabe summarizes the songs, hits and couplets together atmospheric. Classics such as "Ninon," "Somewhere in the world" or "A Song Goes Round the World" Raabe interpreted with a delicate shine away any false sweetness. The silent longing "When the wind blows across the sea" - in the original sung by the Comedian Harmonists - after that line is drawn, which bears the name of the concert program.
Come and visit Max Raabe's solo concert program "Across the Sea" on 09.30.2012 in the Prince Regent Theatre in Munich.

The district gets a creative center - but carefully

"We knew it would be complex and would take a long time," said Munich's cultural advisor, Dr. Hans-Georg Küppers for planning the future of the creative quarter Dachauerstraße. Initial doomsayers of the type "This is not at all" had been proved wrong: step by step building up. Now a jury for the historical Jutier-ton and the neighboring hall has selected five finalists and their use of concepts. By the end is the final extension, setup and use concept will be developed.
Two dozen teams had submitted ideas. It was Kueppers, as on 27 July in a public presentation of the jury's findings, said neither the number nor the quality as expected. The jury was in Kueppers' line with the former director of the intimate theater, the director of the film festival, a curator at the Haus der Kunst, the Urban Planning Councillor, several professors, city councils, county committee members and other persons to occupied the head of the Cultural Affairs Bureau of Basel caliber. She did after Kueppers' words still difficult to extract the best ideas.
After the summer break, the five finalist teams will come together for a workshop with the Department of Culture, to promote the realization. Kueppers let hinted that he would like to see form this cooperation. By the end of the year, then to the final concept will be developed. Its implementation will take several years and is, as several teams emphasized, does not apply to all eternity. The utilization plan must remain flexible to provide for new ideas and new space, make modifications and conversions as easy as possible, but still provide an enduring organizational framework.
This framework will one of the teams' penetrating everything "in a create, but still vague, participatory approach, another in the form of a profit company, again another using a collecting agency for artistic products and a team, hear from their presentation to the expertise of an accountant could, with a foundation of public law as a co-sponsor a limited liability company and an association of artists. Four of the five teams will leave the existing two buildings out of respect for its historic industrial architecture as original as possible - they see the different options, but make installations without destroying the impression of space. A team would like to connect the two buildings by a bridge and a lake created among them know. All teams wishing to use the outdoor space intensive. Likely to be decisive but that interior design will prevail eventually.
Whether one of the two halls is basically a generously to members of Santander presentation and venue, and the other a much small-scale-to-use office and production hall, or whether the one for pure and the other is to be optimized for low usage or whether the two facilities will have function rooms (a team in the Jutierhalle proposes a theater space for 400 guests with a telescopic stage and in the hall tonnes another hall with 500 seats or standing room for about a thousand), will show only the optimization round in the autumn. Widespread agreement was that the future school and college in the activity plan should be included as well as future residents and domiciled in the quarter already neighbors. In any case, it should be one or more restaurants. Increased funding to the area as a venue Jutierhalle see all the teams, the one with the other without a gallery installation, a fixed partition walls, the other split "just" by Iron Curtains. Further details of the interior living spaces are quite apart yet. Thus, for not predict whether and where one, two or three stories will be expanded, how much light to penetrate through the upper hall ceiling to the ground floor and where daylight is necessary at all. A team pleads for example, explicitly for a sound-and light-insulated "black box" in which it could come in film and television productions. A team is thinking especially of the independent artist scene and wants this so fragmented and diverse as possible to make room for another may think of large events to trade shows. Common to all of the participatory approach again: Not intended for creative users expanded here, to be furnished and rented out, but with them. A team summarized the challenges to be steps along this way: First it was necessary to reorganize structurally to enable to be involved and open to the process as much as possible, to then derive a basic structure for the halls, so apart from a planning and management team building to design the basic structure with stairs, bathroom facilities, a restaurant and an administrative area with a caretaker and the first action areas, in a third step, it was necessary to establish this site to be aware of the city, in principle, but only temporary, and on the profitability of the tenant to staffelnde offer leases and complete, and so make it as step four, the constant renewal of the creative quarter possible. A team also argued explicitly committed to implement a concept that can be especially after the already active on the site creators to 2016 due to relocation in different lengths fused to preserving old buildings in their operations. The next five years should therefore be explicitly considered as test operation and deallocated. It was spontaneous applause, as interim solutions to portable, this user group logically very interested.

Munich's largest one-day open-air theaters: Energy in the Park

On Saturday, 09.08.2012, place in the Olympic Park in Munich, like last year Energy in the Park instead. Energy in the Park Munich is the largest one-day open-air festival and this year presented to the organizers on the Radio Gong 96.3 Coubertinplatz again a spectacular, exclusive and exhilarating line-up. Also on board are Deicide, Caligula, Maximo Park, Mia and Madsen. There are also international stars back to Munich.Deicide
The headliner for Deicide is humor, ironic and humorous lyrics to sing along and riot and Remmidemmi. The live performance of the Hamburg hip-hop and Electro band has become legendary. Since her breakthrough with "Bon Voyage" in 2000, they split again and again bearing the hip-hop and eventually create their own style, "Tech-Rap". From then on, pull Deicide's new program through the full consequences, inclined to rely on texts and grotesque experience just such a stage show in which she with plastic wrap, plastic bags, bright green glow sticks and a lot of tape clothed.Madsen
Another member of the Energy in the Park stage, the Madsen. The trio of brothers since 2004 is just under her last name on the stage and delivers regular North German punk rock with a slight broadside. Madsen is through and through a live band and can not wait to show her fans in Munich songs from their new and fifth album is now "Where it begins" to live.MIA.
Also MIA. have a new album in the luggage - and this is "Tacheles" talk. "Tacheles" is the fifth album of the Quartet in Berlin. As if the fans have been waiting for months shooting her latest album to release at No. 3 on the German charts and the single "parachute" is still before the album's most successful extraction of the band's history. So it is time for an appearance at Energy in the Park stage, because who could see the band to ever live kitty cat, who will confirm that this is a terrific live act. Electropop with the finest German lyrics. Songs like "Hungry Heart", "Dance of the molecules" or "parachute" from the new album will transform the place into a large choir Coubertin.
Come and visit Energy in the Park on 08/09/2012 at Coubertinplatz in the Olympic Park in Munich.

The 30 best songs of the first half of 2012

Two days ago we took you hear the 21 disks required for this first half of 2012. How could it be otherwise preentamos you here and now his little sister: a Spotify playlist with that I think are the 30 best tracks released between January and June this year. The thing is variadita: there from courts of The Cribs, Passion Pit Miike Snow or even some good rod holders Sharks, Japandroids or Sleigh Bells.

The songs are sorted by intensity, not higher / lower preference. The latter best I leave to publish the final list in the months of December and January.Hope you like! If a topic descubréis through it comentaseis would love it in this post. :)

Freedom, Ramadan and Smartphone

If young refugees do with young German video art together, inevitably results in a promising, eclectic mix of images, impressions and experiences.In the framework of the integrated media project contact lenses at the Villa Stuck was unaccompanied refugee minors together with German students with video art, their ideas and bring the reality to express what moves them. The results were presented on Monday.
The project contact lens was an interesting mix of colorful diversity of cultural multitasking required of each participant. In the workshops, three main languages ​​spoken: English, German and Afghan. It was therefore necessary to overcome language barriers and to practice tolerance. Many of the young Germans first came to the same age with refugees from countries such as Afghanistan, Ghana, Nigeria and Somalia in contact. Some participants had previously not yet visited the Villa Stuck indeed any museum. And for some of the participants was for the period in which the workshops took place, especially Ramadan. The project contact lens was two different worlds collide: Young people with different cultural backgrounds and horizons of experience working together in workshops to develop their own creative ideas and put them in the form of video art.
Collaboration and cooperation was not only very important in the workshops, including the project itself brought together various organizations. Participants of the workshop were both high school students, students from the BFZ (Professional Research) and the Clever school students (school education for young refugees Analog). The young people were looked after by media educators Mareike Schemmerling Kupser from JFF and Thomas (Institute for Media Education in Research and Practice), which have the project in cooperation with Kajuto (campaign by young people for tolerance) designed and implemented.Inspired by the young people were the video artists Tamara Moyzes and Martin Brand. The Slovakian Tamara Moyzes wearing gas masks in their videos or shows dancing dolls in military uniform and carries criticism of the political situation in Israel. Video artist Martin Brand portrayed in his videos skater cliques, amateur rappers and the lives of young men. For contact lens, they have presented their work to young people.Anne Marr, head of the agency says the Villa Stuck: "It's always great to work with artists, because they have no pedagogical impetus, but also a bit crazy. Nevertheless, they find a very good access to young people and manage to tie them to their work. The artists have shown the majority of young people for the first time in her life, why and how to make artistic films and what this actually means. It was nice to see how this has affected the young people, and how they have directly converted. "
"The special thing about contact lenses this year was that it consisted of two entirely different projects. The first project was a weekend workshop and the second is a project week. Quite different formats have emerged, in the first workshop in the second mobile phone clips and short films that were shot with a normal camera. "Said Anne Marr.
The short films can be seen on smartphones and Ipads. Casual, of course, and in a plain format are the young people that is what makes them tick. A short film showing the youth how to ride a glass elevator up and down in their hands they hold signs. It says: "Today I would like to go dancing at 11 Clock" and ". No, you have to sleep in your own room," The films are about freedom in Germany and the severe restrictions in refugee shelters, of dreams and the reunion with the family of Friendship and peer pressure, joy and sadness, of identity and homeland.
How do you measure the success of contact lens can be, is set for Anne Marr: "When I learned that a Nigerian and I have made a German students after the workshop on their own initiative, I was very happy."